Urban Brain Lab

Dr. Fitzgerald is a sociologist of science and medicine, with a particular interest in the history and present of the neurosciences. He is especially interested in neuroscientific and psychiatric research as it gets entangled in social and cultural life – a kind of hybridity and ambiguity that marks out important new conceptual and empirical terrain for sociology. To try to get at this hybridity, he is currently pursuing a wide programme of research that limns the intersections of the social, human, and biological sciences, and have active research interests in mental health and urban life; in the autism spectrum, as it has been conjured by the neurosciences; in the history and present of ‘mind-wandering’; and in experimental, interdisciplinary approaches to social science. His research is broadly concerned with thinking about, problematizing, and sometimes intervening in, the intersections of the social and biological sciences.

Publications
Fitzgerald, D., Rose, N. and Singh, I. 2016. Living well in the Neuropolis. The Sociological Review 64(1), pp. 221-237. (10.1111/2059-7932.12022) 

Callard, F., Fitzgerald, D. and Woods, A. 2015. Interdisciplinary collaboration in action: tracking the signal, tracing the noise. Palgrave Communications 1, article number: 15019. (10.1057/palcomms.2015.19) 

Fitzgerald, D., Rose, N. and Singh, I. 2015. Revitalising sociology: urban life and mental illness between history and the present. British Journal of Sociology 67(1), pp. 138-160. (10.1111/1468-4446.12188) 

Fitzgerald, D. and Callard, F. 2015. Social science and neuroscience beyond interdisciplinarity: experimental entanglements. Theory, Culture & Society 32(1), pp. 3-32. (10.1177/0263276414537319) 

Fitzgerald, D.et al. 2014. Ambivalence, equivocation and the politics of experimental knowledge: a transdisciplinary neuroscience encounter. Social Studies of Science 44(5), pp. 701-721. (10.1177/0306312714531473) 

Callard, F. and Fitzgerald, D. 2014. Experimental control: what does it mean for a participant to ‘feel free’?. Consciousness and Cognition 27, pp. 231-232. (10.1016/j.concog.2014.05.008)

Fitzgerald, D. 2014. The trouble with brain imaging: hope, uncertainty and ambivalence in the neuroscience of autism. BioSocieties 9(3), pp. 241-261. (10.1057/biosoc.2014.15) 

Fitzgerald, D.et al. 2014. What’s so critical about Critical Neuroscience? Rethinking experiment, enacting critique. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 8, article number: 365. (10.3389/fnhum.2014.00365) 

Littlefield, M.et al. 2014. Contextualizing neuro-collaborations: reflections on a transdisciplinary fMRI lie detection experiment. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 8, article number: 149. (10.3389/fnhum.2014.00149) 

Fitzgerald, D. 2013. The affective labour of autism neuroscience: entangling emotions, thoughts and feelings in a scientific research practice. Subjectivity 6(2), pp. 131-152. (10.1057/sub.2013.5) 

Callard, F. and Fitzgerald, D. 2015. Rethinking interdisciplinarity across the social sciences and neurosciences. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. (10.1057/9781137407962) 

Address:
2.35, Glamorgan Building
Cardiff University
Cardiff, CF10 3XQ

Email: fitzgeraldp@cardiff.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0)29 2087 0695